Killer_Films
Killer Films
American independent film production company
Killer Films is a New York City-based independent film production company founded in 1995 by film producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler. The company has produced many acclaimed independent films over the past two decades including Far From Heaven (nominated for four Academy Awards), Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo, Kids, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, I Shot Andy Warhol, Swoon, I'm Not There (Academy Award nominated), Kill Your Darlings, Still Alice (Academy Award winner) and Carol (nominated for six Academy Awards). Killer Films also executive produced Todd Haynes' five episode HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, which went on to win five Emmys, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Industry |
|
---|---|
Founded | 1995 |
Founder | |
Headquarters | , United States |
Website | Killer Films |
In 2014, Killer Films merged with Glass Elevator Media to form Killer Content, Inc.[1]
Killer Films productions have received multiple awards and nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Emmy Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Independent Spirit Awards. On the occasion of Killer's 10th anniversary in 2005, the company was feted with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.[2]
Christine Vachon's first feature production, Poison, directed by Todd Haynes, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival. Poison was one of the defining films of the emerging New Queer Cinema.[3][4][5] For her work on Far From Heaven, another Todd Haynes collaboration, Vachon was honored by the New York Film Critics Circle, and received the Producer of the Year Award from the National Board of Review.[6]
Vachon produced the Showtime television adaptation of the public broadcasting radio program, This American Life, for which she won an Emmy. In 2011, Christine was invited to give the State of Cinema Address at the San Francisco Film Society's 54th San Francisco International Film Festival.
Vachon has also written two books on her life and career, Shooting to Kill (1998),[7] and A Killer Life (2006).[8]
One of Killer's most recent films, Kill Your Darlings, directed by John Krokidas, and starred Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, was selected for the Sundance Film Festival and went on to be nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.[9] After producing Magic Magic, which debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to wide acclaim, Killer re-teamed with writer-director Sebastián Silva on his new feature, Nasty Baby.[10]
In 2015, Julianne Moore won the Best Performance by an Actress Oscar for her part in the 2014 Killer film Still Alice, directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, based on the novel of the same name, written by Lisa Genova.[11] That same year, Killer re-teamed with director Todd Haynes on Carol, based on the 1952 romance novel, The Price of Salt, written by Patricia Highsmith. The film stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.[12]
In 2017, the company produced Janicza Bravo's Lemon starring Brett Gelman and Judy Greer;[13] Beatriz at Dinner starring Salma Hayek and Chloë Sevigny;[14] and Dina directed by Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini, the latter of three winning the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.[15][16]
In May 2017, the company signed a two-year first look deal with Amazon Studios.[17]
Film
Television
Year | Title | Notes |
---|---|---|
2005 | Mrs. Harris | TV movie Nominated for twelve Emmy Awards[93] |
2007–2009 | This American Life | TV series Won three Emmy Awards[94] |
2010 | The Neistat Brothers | TV series |
2011 | Mildred Pierce | TV miniseries Won five Emmy Awards[95] |
2015–2017 | Z: The Beginning of Everything | TV series |
2018–2019 | This Close | TV series |
2021 | Halston | TV miniseries |
2021 | Pride | TV miniseries |
- Vachon, Christine. Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter, Avon Books, 335 p., 1st ed., 1998, ISBN 0380798549.
- Vachon, Christine. A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond, Simon & Schuster, 279 p., 1st ed., 2006, ISBN 0743256301.
- "Killer Films Merges With Glass Elevator Media to Form Killer Content". The Hollywood Reporter. May 27, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
- "Swoon: Ten Years of Killer Films". MoMA. Retrieved March 29, 2023.
- "Killer Films' Co-Founders Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler on Lesbian Romance 'Carol' and Indie Resilience". The Hollywood Reporter. September 25, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
- Levy, Emanuel (June 27, 2015). "Gay Pride 2015: Celebrating Todd Haynes' Poison". EmmanuelLevy. Archived from the original on July 13, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
- Dillard, Clayton (April 3, 2013). "Hearth of Darkness: Rob White's Todd Haynes". Slant Magazine. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
- "Christine Vachon Bio". HBO. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
- "Shooting to Kill". HarperCollins. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- "Christine Vachon's 'A Killer Life'". NPR. December 21, 2006. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- "'Kill Your Darlings' slays Venice". Cornell Chronicle. September 9, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
- Sneider, Jeff (August 14, 2013). "Kristen Wiig in Talks for Indie 'Nasty Baby' With TV on the Radio Singer Tunde Adebimpe (Exclusive)". The Wrap. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
- Dove, Steve (February 26, 2015). "Julianne Moore Wins Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role". The Oscars. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
- McGovern, Joe (July 30, 2015). "Todd Haynes' Carol changes its release date". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
- Hipes, Patrick (August 17, 2016). "Brett Gelman-Starring Indie 'Lemon' Wraps; Janicza Bravo's Feature Directorial Debut". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
- Jafaar, Ali (August 1, 2016). "Chloe Sevigny, Salma Hayek & Jay Duplass Join 'Beatriz At Dinner'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
- Patten, Dominic (December 5, 2016). "Sundance 2017: Robert Redford, New Rashida Jones Netflix Series, 'Rebel In The Rye' & More On Premiere, Docu, Midnight & Kids Slates". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
- Billington, Alex (January 29, 2017). "Sundance 2017 Awards: 'Dina' & 'Chasing Coral' Are Big Doc Winners". FirstShowing.net. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
- Lang, Brent (May 2, 2017). "Amazon Signs First Look Deals with Bona Fide Productions, Killer Films, and Le Grisbi Productions (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
- "Wiener-Dog". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
- "Dark Waters". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
- "Zola (2021)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
- "Shirley". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
- "Shirley". The Numbers. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
- "The World to Come (2020)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
- "Past Lives (2023)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
- "She Came to Me (2023)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
- "A Good Person (2023)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- "May December (2023)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
- "Bleeding Love (2023)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
- Killer Films website
- Christine Vachon (February 24, 2017). Film-makers can defy Trump. Depicting the lives of others is an act of resistance. The Guardian